181. How ‘Helping People’ Can Be Distorted Into Avoiding Ourselves w/Adam Vibe Gunton

Adam Vibe Gunton is a bestselling author, speaker, and entrepreneur. After overcoming a 16 year battle with drug addiction which led him to being homeless and kicked out of the homeless shelter, Adam set out on a mission to develop himself into the best version possible to attract other addicts suffering to find a life in recovery. Adam has built a multiple 7 figure company, gotten his book in the hands of over 10,000 people, spoken at events and schools all over the world, been a guest on over 100 podcasts, hosted over 150 episodes of The Recovered On Purpose Show, has a TedX Talk in October of this year, and has helped over 1,000 addicts find recovery in just five years of sobriety. His focus now is improving every area of his life to continue growing the reach and impact of his nonprofit foundation Recovered On Purpose.

Main Business Issues:

Finding fulfillment, peace and financial stability in expressing his purpose of addiction recovery 

Adam’s Key Insights and Takeaways:

Despite having a lot of big wins in life and in business Adam found himself in a constant state of overwork in order to fulfill his mission of helping as many people as possible heal their addictions

He’s made a lot of strides but due to a series of bad decisions, he was left in a financial bind he didn’t experience since he started his own recovery journey 

As a result he felt a lot of pressure to succeed 

Diving deeper into that we unpacked additional patterns that had him finding significance in the responsibility he felt at curing the world of addiction 

While this was driving him to do a lot, we explored the degree to which that also had the pattern of using work as a drug and the attachment of ‘saving’ and what it meant to his own version of fulfillment and inner peace 

Connect with Adam

https://RecoveredOnPurpose.org

https://Facebook.com/RecoveredOnPurpose

https://youTube.com/RecoveredOnPurpose